He'd lived long enough to know that everyone handled grief in different ways, and little by little, they all seemed to accept their new lives.

It hadn't been so long ago, yet sometimes she felt that she'd been an altogether different person back then.

I tell myself that I know you, and then when I think about it, I realize that I don't.

Most people don’t know how to appreciate the silence. They can’t help talking.

We sit silently and watch the world around us. This has taken us a lifetime to learn...for silence is pure. Silence is holy. It draws people together...this is the great paradox.

You know...it's a hard age. Kids are in that stage where they're beginning to understand the world of adults, without having the maturity of adults to deal with everything going on around them.

Writing the last page of the first draft is the most enjoyable moment in writing. It's one of the most enjoyable moments in life, period.